A South Carolina woman says her dog died after eating poisoned food.According to WIS, about a month ago, Valerie James returned to her Richland County home and checked on her two dogs in the fenced-in backyard: Reilly, a black lab and Darcy, a border collie.Darcy was obviously not well. “We let her in, and she was really in bad shape. She was falling all over. She was thirsty. We tried giving her water. She fell,” James said.Hours later, the dog was rushed to the vet. She could not be saved and died within hours. “She died a miserable death,” she said. “I mean, it wasn’t like she just fell over and died. She was in awful shape.”James took Darcy to a vet, who discovered something strange: human food in the animal's stomach. According to The State, the dog had hot dogs in her stomach. “He actually said, ‘I had to get to the bottom of it. I pumped her stomach. We found some food in her stomach.’ He asked me if I had fed her that food,” James recalled. “I said, ‘No. I don’t even have that. I don’t even eat that. It’s not been in my house for probably 20 years.’ And he said, ‘Well, her stomach was full of at least a pound of it.’”According to an incident report, the hot dogs appeared to have been hollowed out and stuffed with some other substance that may have been used to poison the animal. A toxicology report has been ordered.James' other dog survived a similar illness and she therefore believes someone targeted her dogs. “I don’t know who did it, but whoever did this was a very sick individual,” she said.James is offering a $2,000 reward for information that “leads to the successful prosecution of the individual(s) responsible.”

A South Carolina woman says her dog died after eating poisoned food.

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According to WIS, about a month ago, Valerie James returned to her Richland County home and checked on her two dogs in the fenced-in backyard: Reilly, a black lab and Darcy, a border collie.

Darcy was obviously not well.

“We let her in, and she was really in bad shape. She was falling all over. She was thirsty. We tried giving her water. She fell,” James said.

Hours later, the dog was rushed to the vet. She could not be saved and died within hours.

“She died a miserable death,” she said. “I mean, it wasn’t like she just fell over and died. She was in awful shape.”

James took Darcy to a vet, who discovered something strange: human food in the animal's stomach.

“He actually said, ‘I had to get to the bottom of it. I pumped her stomach. We found some food in her stomach.’ He asked me if I had fed her that food,” James recalled. “I said, ‘No. I don’t even have that. I don’t even eat that. It’s not been in my house for probably 20 years.’ And he said, ‘Well, her stomach was full of at least a pound of it.’”

According to an incident report, the hot dogs appeared to have been hollowed out and stuffed with some other substance that may have been used to poison the animal.

A toxicology report has been ordered.

James' other dog survived a similar illness and she therefore believes someone targeted her dogs.

“I don’t know who did it, but whoever did this was a very sick individual,” she said.

James is offering a $2,000 reward for information that “leads to the successful prosecution of the individual(s) responsible.”